Does Subjective Rating Reflect Behavioural Coding? Personality in 2 Month-Old Dog Puppies: An Open-Field Test and Adjective-Based Questionnaire

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 11; no. 3; p. e0149831
• Main Authors: Barnard, Shanis, Marshall-Pescini, Sarah, Passalacqua, Chiara, Beghelli, Valentina, Capra, Alexa, Normando, Simona, Pelosi, Annalisa, Valsecchi, Paola
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 15.03.2016; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Analysis; Animal cognition; Animals; Behavior; Behavior, Animal; Biology and Life Sciences; Canis lupus dingo; Coding; Consistency; Dogs; Dogs - psychology; Extroversion; Female; Human-animal relationships; Identification methods; Male; Neural coding; Neurosis; Open-field behavior; Personality; Personality traits; Principal components analysis; Questionnaires; Social Sciences; Stimuli; Studies; Surveys and Questionnaires; Italy; Austria

A number of studies have recently investigated personality traits in non-human species, with the dog gaining popularity as a subject species for research in this area. Recent research has shown the consistency of personality traits across both context and time for adult dogs, both when using questio...